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has anybody managed to extract a helpful response from eonon about the issues with the d5150???,here is what I received when asking for help with the auto dimming and random boot issues....

Quote:

Thanks a lot for your email and kind patience.
I would like to tell you that D5113's illumination wire is orange,
please connect it to the positive pole of your headlight. Then it will
be OK.

Please have a try now

If you have any question, please feel free to contact us.

Best regards
Susan from eonon

now they do not respond at all,imho,i think we are all on our own with these units and should not expect any support from these people,they may yet prove me wrong,but somehow I don't think so!.
footnote:
they cant even get the model number right!:

Yes, don't expect any support with these units, just a bunch of half-responses with smilies and emoticons in them. If great support is required, then you'll have to go with Dynavin.
But we'll do our best to help each other with these cheap units through these threads.

Really confused by the red straps on the unit that stated transit screws must be removed. I'm assuming the screws holding on the red straps? Then it says the attached mylar labels must be placed over the screw openings to retain warranty? What mylar labels? Nothing was included....

Really confused by the red straps on the unit that stated transit screws must be removed. I'm assuming the screws holding on the red straps? Then it says the attached mylar labels must be placed over the screw openings to retain warranty? What mylar labels? Nothing was included....

yes, take the two screws out holding the red straps... they are there so in transit, the deck doesn't bent in on the CD rom part of the deck

I think what they ment over the Mylar labels in the one on the back of the deck.

probably just a typo... you don't need to cover the holes with anything

very good call! I wasn't game to try that,but now that you have done it successfully I did too and it works!,thankyou,however I wonder why they connected the orange wire to the canbus adaptor?,methinks they don't test these things before going to market.

this thread is providing support for d5150 owners that eonon should be providing,maybe all the helpful people on this thread should send eonon a bill for all the help provided,because they(eonon) certainly are not

How in the hell did you guys get this to sit flush with the antenna adapter installed? I just couldn't do it. All other wiring got pushed to the driver's side, not up or down and it slides back perfect. Put the antenna cable in and it's too long, hits the back and simply will not go in.

Not even a chance with the Ipod cable. It's even longer. What the hell?!

Little disappointed with the bluetooth functionality, it pulls my full contact list including work contacts, not just my phone's address book, so it's pretty useless. The CANBUS thing is really annoying. Hope they find a way to fix this.

So, I'm in need of an antenna cable and ipod cable with shorter or angled fittings. Where can I find these?

How in the hell did you guys get this to sit flush with the antenna adapter installed? I just couldn't do it. All other wiring got pushed to the driver's side, not up or down and it slides back perfect. Put the antenna cable in and it's too long, hits the back and simply will not go in.

Not even a chance with the Ipod cable. It's even longer. What the hell?!

Little disappointed with the bluetooth functionality, it pulls my full contact list including work contacts, not just my phone's address book, so it's pretty useless. The CANBUS thing is really annoying. Hope they find a way to fix this.

So, I'm in need of an antenna cable and ipod cable with shorter or angled fittings. Where can I find these?

I didn't have that problem,possibly because my car is right hand drive.

I had to trim the butts of the connectors for both. Just took a hack saw to about 1/3 of the antenna's end and used wire cutters to get more precise around the wire to keep from clipping it. Took off about 1/2 of the Ipod connector, got down to exposed wire so I wrapped the wire around the side to make it small and snug and wrapped the hell out of it with electrical tape and fished the wire through a small hole in the glove box. It's snug as a bug now and all the features work. Definitely more modding than I expected having to fix a wire harness and trim two connectors they supplied. I definitely think they designed it for right hand drive. The angle of the clearance is more on the passenger side which is where the longer connectors were.

I had to trim the butts of the connectors for both. Just took a hack saw to about 1/3 of the antenna's end and used wire cutters to get more precise around the wire to keep from clipping it. Took off about 1/2 of the Ipod connector, got down to exposed wire so I wrapped the wire around the side to make it small and snug and wrapped the hell out of it with electrical tape and fished the wire through a small hole in the glove box. It's snug as a bug now and all the features work. Definitely more modding than I expected having to fix a wire harness and trim two connectors they supplied. I definitely think they designed it for right hand drive. The angle of the clearance is more on the passenger side which is where the longer connectors were.

Overall, would I do it again? For 366 shipped...you bet.

Yeah I had to do the same thing even from the D5113... I took off the rubber shielding off the antanna head and it could bent more...

I reused it on my D5150 and it fit like a glove The RCA's attached is good but a lot harder to work with now.

on the D5113 it was a plug in harness type and after installing my camera and getting to behind the deck..I realized the harness wasn't plugged in and I had thrown out my box Contacted eonon and they actually sent me a replacement free of charge! I've had my share of luck with them.

I just read on bimmerforums a user right a post that reads "I wired in a DEI 528T relay between the head unit and the CanBus. It has an adjustable timer from 0-60 seconds. Now the CanBus powers up after the unit keeping the unit as it was set on power down. Cheap fix for keeping your wheel controls."

I've PM'd him, and he's gotten to me since.. He will eventually write a DIY and once I have that I'll link it to you here...

Just got a bmw 323i so my first upgrade was this D5150 nav system. I hope it works out good for me. I wish someone sold the sd cards preprogramed with igo with us maps so I don't have to figure it out myself. We need a vide from start to finish on how to install everything correctly so many bugs needed to be worked out.